Improvement in treating smoking-tobacco



WESLEY A. WRIGHT, OF LYNOHBURG, VIRGINIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TREATING SMOKING-TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 111,712, datedlfiebruary 7, 1871.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WESLEY A. WRIGHT, ofLynchburg, Campbell county, State of Virginia, have invented a new andImproved Method of Treating Smokin g-Tobacco, ofwhich the following is atull, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to utilize and render valuable the wastematerial about tobacco-factories, which heretofore has been worked upinto a smoking-tobacco of a grade so low as not to be remunerative, andto be entirely unfit for market. By my treatment of this waste materialI produce a superior artiole, which I style the Durham Smoking-Tobacco.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to explain the manner in which I have carried it out.

I take four pounds of tonka beans, four ounces of mace, two ounces ofVanilla beans, and two pounds of angelica, (dried,) and grind all topowder. I then put into it one gallon of alcohol and allow the mixtureto stand four or five days. I then empty it into a barrel of New Englandrumsay, from thirty-five to forty. gallonsand let the whole stand forone week, but shaking the barrel well every day. The mixture is thenready for use.

When the tobacco has been prepared for packing I make a tea, moderatelystrong, from the bark of Sassafras-root, and strain it well.

- oughly dry, when it is ready for the market.

One of the great advantages of tlns process of treating tobacco over anyother is that the essential oils and alcohol I use counteract, in agreat measure, the effects of the nicotine of the tobacco on the nervoussystem, and thus delicate personsare enabled to smoke it with impunity.

Claim.

Having thus described my invention mt I claim as new, and desire tosecure by .l e tcrs Patent, is

1. The above-described process of treating smoking-tobacco,substantially as and for the purpose set forth;

2. As a new article of manufacture, smokingtobacco when treatedsubstantially as above described.

WESLEY A. VVRIG T Witnesses:

'1. S. MERsER, 0. II. FowLnn.

